Democrat Jena Griswold, the Colorado secretary of state, raised more than $185,000 in her first 24 hours as an announced candidate for attorney general in next year’s election, her campaign said Tuesday.

The sum appears to be a record for single-day donations received by a state-level candidate since Colorado’s current campaign finance system was established more than 20 years ago.

Griswold, who faces term limits in her current seat, made her candidacy official on Monday, joining Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty and former state House Speaker Crisanta Duran in the Democratic primary for the office held by term-limited Democrat Phil Weiser, who is running for governor. Republican Connor Pennington, a political newcomer, is the only GOP candidate to have filed paperwork for the office.

Griswold’s campaign said she received 869 contributions from 7 a.m. Monday through the same time Tuesday morning, for an average donation of $212.

Since Griswold entered the race a week after the end of the year’s first fundraising quarter, her initial campaign finance report, covering the three-month period ending on June 30, isn’t due until July 15. Dougherty and Duran, who launched their candidacies in late February, are scheduled to report their first quarterly hauls by April 15.

“I am honored by the outpouring of support and excited that so many Coloradans have joined our campaign,” Griswold said in a statement to Colorado Politics. “I look forward to meeting with Coloradans across the state to discuss my plans to stand up to Trump, fight to protect our rights and freedoms and protect the Colorado way of life.”

On the day she kicked off her campaign, Griswold announced endorsements from more than 100 current and former Colorado elected officials, local labor unions and community figures, including U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, House Majority Leader Monica Duran, Arapahoe County District Attorney Amy Padden and former Lt. Gov. Gail Schoettler, who is chairing her campaign.

Colorado Republican Party Chairwoman Brita Horn told Colorado Politics that Griswold’s role in a lawsuit that attempted to keep Donald Trump off the state’s ballot last year disqualified the Democrat as a potential attorney general.

“A person whose only justification for being the top lawyer in the state is having the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decide her view was wrong has no business being attorney general,” Horn said.

A group of Republican and unaffiliated voters sued Griswold in 2023 to keep Trump from appearing on Colorado ballots, citing a post-Civil War-era constitutional provision that bars insurrectionists from running for certain federal offices.

The U.S. Supreme Court eventually voted unanimously to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that found Trump didn’t meet qualifications to hold office under the 14th Amendment.